RVcrazy
Puyallup, WA, USA
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Does anyone have any ideas of why our house smoke detectors would go off in the middle of the night 2 nights in a row at the same time? The carbon monoxide detector is fine. The lights on the alarms are all on in the various rooms. There is no noticeable smoke in the air.
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roam1
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are they smoke only or smoke & CO2?
are the wired together or independant?
if independant and both go off, you propably have smoke or CO2, find it!
just guessing.....
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RVcrazy
Puyallup, WA, USA
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The ones I'm talking about now are in our home, not RV. They are hard wired in to many of the rooms and have batteries for backup. CO2 detectors are separate and are fine.
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robsouth
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roam1 wrote:are they smoke only or smoke & CO2?
Why would anyone have a carbon dioxide detector. Maybe you meant CO detector?
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RoyB
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We used to set them off in the missle silos in central Arkansas with a well directed "passing of gas"... Sure got the attention of the missle site personnel hehe...
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Home hardwired smoke detectors are set up so when one goes off so do the others. You may have one bad head and its causing them all to go off. Also the new more sensitive one's can be activated by dust, microscopic bugs, ETC.. so taking them down one at a time use compressed air on them and repalceing the back-up batts. may cure the problem. If not one head may need to be repalced. If your uneasy in doing this call an electrician and they should be able to handle it.
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Jer&Ger
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We had all of ours go off one day at the same time. We finally tracked it down to the fact that the batteries were low on all and just a a little dust caused one to go off and that somehow caused the rest to go off too. We cleaned and replaced the batteries, never happened again! Hope this helps, Jerry
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How old are they?
They have a useful life span!
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Captain_Happy
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In todays world of house wiring and all the electrical code changes (not all for the better either) all the smoke detectors are wired together, so when one goes off, they all go off. I was an electrical contractor back in the 80's, and that's what we did then in those years. 40+ years as a working electrician was enough. Don't get me started on all the new code changes, just more to protect the stupid people on the planet.
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roam1
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robsouth wrote:roam1 wrote:are they smoke only or smoke & CO2?
Why would anyone have a carbon dioxide detector. Maybe you meant CO detector?
oops! another old brain f*rt!
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